Hawaiian Bell Telephone Company - Known Now as Hawaiian Telcom - 1880's dated Pair of Uncut Hawaii Stock Certificates - 2 Unissued Stocks Still Attached!

Honolulu, Hawaii, Unissued Stock. Hawaiian Gazette Print. Hawaiian Telcom was founded in 1883 as the Mutual Telephone Company, chartered under the Kingdom of Hawaii. Herman A. Widemann was a co-founder and the President. The original owner was Archibald Scott Cleghorn, father of Princess Ka'iulani. It was the second telephone company chartered in Hawaii, after the Hawaiian Bell Telephone Company in 1880. The Hawaiian Bell Telephone Company was also founded by Herman A. Widemann. Mutual took over Hawaiian Bell in 1894.

Hawaiian Telcom, Inc., is the incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) or dominant local telephone company, serving the state of Hawaii. In 2005, Hawaiian Telcom Holdco, Inc., was formed by The Carlyle Group, following its purchase of the Hawaiian Telcom Inc. assets of Verizon Communications. On July 2, 2018, Cincinnati Bell purchased Hawaiian Telcom Holdco, Inc. for $650 Million,

Hawaiian Telcom provides a wide range of consumer, business, wholesale communications and technology services. Service offerings include local phone, long-distance, Internet services (DSL and fiber optic), and television service; along with wireless services such as a mobile virtual network operator using leased capacity provided by Sprint and Verizon Wireless's CDMA networks on the consumer side. Hawaii operations of Verizon Wireless were not included in the 2004 sale to The Carlyle Group, and Verizon Wireless continues to operate in Hawaii as before the divestiture. Among the company's business offerings are a full range of Internet Protocol services (IP), including Ethernet, high-bandwidth data services, managed services and cloud-based services. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_Telcom

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